# Vintage Promotional, Industrial, Educational films **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [December 26, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084 "2025-12-26T23:14:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084/41 "2025-12-30T13:50:59Z")
It’s hard to beat Saul Bass for innovative visuals. I love the _Edifice_ sequence from his longer film **Why Man Creates** (1968) > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkowV1L8l-0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkowV1L8l-0) Although ideas about the real nature of the state of knowledge in The Dark Ages and the achievements in other places have long since expanded on this pretty Eurocentric view of history. But I still love the Gregorian chanting about falling off the edge of the world. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084/42 "2025-12-30T14:32:53Z")
Oh, yes. I saw that one in school in the 1970s ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084/43 "2025-12-30T16:16:07Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I couldn’t edit the above and keep the link. You need to append the link if you want to edit. I like to use a timestamp set to 0 (add _&t=0_ to the end of the URL and save before the edited link resolves to the video). ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084/44 "2025-12-31T06:17:47Z")
I’m pretty sure I did too. I don’t remember the Syphilis or Gonorrhea armies, but I do remember the overlapping male and female outlines. Afterwards, this popped up in my “suggested” feed. > **[Disney's Insects As Carriers Of Disease (1945) | Bugs Will Kill You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMItuW-Gs68%2F)** > > INSECTS AS CARRIERS OF DISEASE is an educational film that was made by Walt Disney Studios and produced under the auspices of the U.S. Office of Inter-Americ... ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084/45 "2026-01-07T00:03:17Z")
I’ve seen that too! It was on either TCM or C-SPAN-2’s “About Books” (or maybe both?) I did not know that the wavy knife could be used to make “hashtag” potatoes. My mother had a knife like that which she would use to cut carrots or other vegetables for a relish tray, and as a young adult, I worked at a company that would sometimes serve “wavy” carrots, also sliced with a knife like this. I had a co-worker who wondered “how they did that”. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2026, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084/46 "2026-01-22T03:27:41Z")
Bumping this: Here’s a channel that has some quite interesting films available for viewing. > **[Wellcome Library](https://www.youtube.com/@WellcomeFilm)** > > Wellcome Collection has one of the largest videos and audio material relating to human and animal health and welfare across the twentieth century. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-promotional-industrial-educational-films/1026084.md?page=2)